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Messier-Bugatti aims to double repair business
Messier-Bugatti aims to double its repair business to achieve annual sales of Fr1 billion ($165 million)over the next five years. This ambition follows the integration of the Dowty Aerospace landing gear maintenance unit into the French company. "We intend to become one of the five world leaders in this ...
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HAECO profit
Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering (HAECO) saw its 1997 profits edge down as margins came under pressure and the full impact of Asia's economic crisis began to be felt. Earnings of HK$320 million ($41 million) were down by 5.7%, excluding 1997's exceptional item from its venture with Rolls-Royce. Source: Flight ...
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Honeywell airport buy
In a move to strengthen its new airport systems grouping, Honeywell has acquired Hughey & Phillips, a specialist designer and manufacturer of airport lighting control and monitoring systems. Honeywell already offers a satellite landing and a ground vehicle tracking system through its new division. Source: Flight International
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Pan Am left at altar...again
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Pan American World Airways is determining whether to drop efforts to resume scheduled airline services in favour of re-organising its operations as a scaled down charter carrier after two potential rescue bids were withdrawn. Pan Am terminated its scheduled flights when it filed for bankruptcy ...
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Boeing signs up for Israeli RADA stake
Boeing and Israeli avionics specialist RADA have signed a preliminary agreement covering the US aerospace giant taking a minority stake in the company. The $10 million investment in RADA will make Boeing its largest single shareholder, with about 40%. RADA manufactures civil and military equipment, including avionics test stations ...
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Pay as you go
Once again there are plans on the table to replace the US ticket tax. There are even hopes that, this time around, the US Federal Aviation Administration will actually be able to see them into law. It is not before time. The US Congress, the FAA and the airline ...
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RAF and Royal Navy seek improved accuracy bomb by 2003
Douglas Barrie/LONDON The Royal Air Force and Royal Navy are aiming to introduce an improved accuracy, increased stand-off, air-delivered bomb into service on their combat aircraft by 2003. Under the programme, the RAF's Panavia Tornado GR4, British Aerospace Harrier GR7, Sepecat Jaguar GR1B, Eurofighter EF2000 and the Royal ...
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USAF deploys B-2 on overseas mission
The US Air Force is deploying two Northrop Grumman B-2 stealth bombers to Andersen AFB, Guam, between 23 March and 3 April. The overseas deployment, the first for the low-observable bomber, is part of an Air Combat Command sponsored exercise. It is the B-2's first deployment for sustained training ...
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Pentagon launches warning on ballistic defence timetable
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Department of Defense (DoD) has warned that the tight schedule for development and possible deployment of a US national defence network against ballistic missile attack may be too ambitious. Phillip Coyle, the Pentagon's director of operational test and evaluation, says in his annual ...
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First C-130J tour generates sales leads
Lockheed Martin is preparing bids in response to interest generated by the C-130J Hercules 2 sales tour through southern European and the Middle East. Of the 12 countries visited, most have active procurement requirements "of some degree of maturity", says Rick Hundley, vice- president international business development for Lockheed Martin ...
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Boeing/DARPA agree canard rotor/wing trial
Boeing's Phantom Works and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have signed a $24 million cost sharing contract for a proof of concept demonstration of the canard rotor/wing (CR/W). The three year programme is to include flight testing of a subscale unmanned vehicle to demonstrate vertical take-off and ...
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P&W tests F119 seal failure fix for F-22
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Pratt &Whitney resumed testing of the F119 fighter engine on 19 March to clear a near term solution to a compressor seal failure which led to the halt of all development testing. P&W hopes that the cure will allow flight testing of the F119 powered Lockheed Martin/Boeing ...
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Hawkeye 2000 AEW prepared for tests
Northrop Grumman plans to fly the prototype E-2CHawkeye 2000 airborne early warning aircraft next month. The aircraft is the first to incorporate all of the upgrades planned for the Hawkeye 2000, including the co-operative engagement capability (CEC). An E-2C has been flying since January 1997 with the mission computer ...
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Dasa aims for Huzar contest with HOT3 demonstration in Poland
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) is planning to demonstrate the Euromissile HOT 3 anti-tank missile in Poland, in the hope of pushing its way into the PZL-Swidnik Huzar attack helicopter weapons and avionics competition. The Huzar project has been surrounded by controversy since the Government launched investigations into the signing of ...
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Boeing expects South Korea to go ahead with AEW proposals
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing remains optimistic that the South Korean air force will press ahead on schedule with its airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft procurement, despite the country's economic difficulties. Jack Sperry, Boeing 767 airborne warning and control system (AWACS) programme manager, says: "Our perception is that Korea is a ...
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NHI presses France to revise NH90 date
Julian Moxon/PARIS Gert Kromhout/THE HAGUE NH Industries (NHI) is asking the French defence ministry to bring forward by up to seven years its planned 2011 service entry date for army versions of the NH90 tactical and naval transport helicopter. Under current planning, France will be the last of ...
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Going Dutch
The Belgian and Netherlands air forces are pooling their Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) forces when providing weekend, night and holiday cover. Belgian air force Lockheed Martin F-16As from Florennes airbase and Dutch F-16As from air bases at Volkel, Leeuwarden and Twente will take it in turns to be on QRA ...
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China reveals upgraded variant of PL5 missile
Douglas Barrie/LONDON China has unveiled an upgraded variant of its PL5 infra-red guided short range air-to-air missile, the PL5E, which it is offering for export. The main difference from the previously seen variant, the PL5B, is in the considerably improved seeker. The PL5B is not described as having an ...
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New Zealand flies first Seasprite
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) flew one of its four Kaman SH-2F Seasprite anti submarine warfare helicopters for the first time, from Hobsonville Airfield on 24 February. The SH-2Fs will be used to replace the RNZN's obsolete Westland Wasps until the arrival of SH-2G Super Seasprites now on ...
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Boeing tests RTM power on Apache
Boeing and prime contractor GKN Westland Helicopters are preparing to start ground tests of the first WAH-64D Apache attack helicopter development prototype for the British Army, having fitted Rolls-Royce Turboméca RTM322 engines in an existing Longbow Apache airframe at Boeing's Mesa, Arizona, helicopter plant. Andrew Walbridge, deputy chief designer ...